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UT: 3 second freezes

Played multiplayer deathmatch on someone else's server and it seems once ever 30 seconds, it would freeze for 3 seconds... then my character would be running against walls, etc... or be shot dead already... it sometimes freeze captures my mouse movement entirely and I can only move laterally, no more mouselook... not even when I go back into Windows. So a reboot is the only fix for that. I thought this was caused by a resource-lacking server that caused all players to stutter (my friend was playing on the same map as I and he had the same problem)...

Then I went to run a practice session locally and it still happens. I lost the mouselook entirely in one of the 3 second freezes. I'm just so frustrated at this point...

I haven't changed my display settings or anything else for a month and this just started happening yesterday. Anyone have any resolutions?

This is a total shot in the dark (no pun intended) but I was seeing something similar a while ago. My machine has SCSI CD drives (one is a CDRW) and I found that if the CDRW was left empty I would get periodic stuttering in games. The solution was to stick a CD in it and things ran smoothly after that.

If you have a scroll wheel on your mouse try going into the control panel and make the scroll wheel function of the mouse unassigned,hit OK,reboot and give it a shot.It sounds strang but I experienced the same type of problem and this was the cure,sure hope it works for you,good luck.....SandBags

actually, I do have a MicroInnovations scroll wheelmouse. But I've had this installed from even before I installed UT... no problems then. Anyway... I don't even have the wheel assigned because I never installed the drivers that came with it. The scroll still works (for changing weapons in UT), just not with web browsers. I would really only need to install the drivers if I wanted the side button on the mouse to be assigned to something.

Alright, I just whacked WIN98SE and reinstalled it, along with WIN2k. I installed UT thru WIN2k and played deathmatch locally again... same problem, the 3 second stutter, then it returns to normal. The only difference in WIN2k is that it doesn't mess up my mouse to the point where I can't mouselook anymore and also freeze it in Windows.